He was sorry to hear Protestant shopmen wishing for the day when Dublin streets would be knee-deep in Catholic blood, and to hear Catholic shopmen reciprocating the wish in regard to Protestant blood.
For the duke had a recollection of giddy shops, and of giddy shopmen too; and it was by serving as one for a day that a certain great nobleman came to victory with a jealously guarded dame beautiful as Venus.
The railroad had filled every place, and it was well known that the striking shopmen not only would never get their old jobs back but were blacklisted in every railroad in the United States.
If it had not been for the strike of the shopmenand the fight in her front yard, she would not have lost her baby.
They'd been carryin' the shopmen right along an was up against it themselves.
Hard times were already in the neighborhood, where lived the families of the shopmen who had gone out on strike.
The four shopmen were serving other customers, and they all happened to be at the counter on the right-hand side.
Those other customers knew it, and although the inattention of the young shopmen annoyed them, they sat well sideways in their chairs that they, too, might take a peep at the lady without rudely turning round.
The young shopmen knew it, and neglected their patrons as much as they dared to stare at her.
Everywhere we went the shopmen fell over each other to wait on her.
She made as though she saw nothing but the shawls; but all the while she furtively watched the shopmen and the two customers, sheltering her eyes behind the rims of her eyeglasses.
Then the right feet appeared soon enough from hidden places, and the shopmen were saved from further loss.
And not only are the few shopmen slipping away, but also numbers of others within our lines who had been half-imprisoned during the past week by our barricades and incessant patrolling.
Up to three o'clock these complaisant shopmen were still selling things at a purely nominal price, which was not entered in the books, but quietly pocketed by them for their own benefit.
The shopmen were lazily taking down the shutters, although it was near eight o'clock; for the day was long enough for the purchases people made in that quarter of the town, while trade was so flat.
And there in the shop she burst out crying before the shopmenbecause she hadn't enough.
A little later you will see the shopmen taking down their shutters, the old women going to early Mass, grooms airing their masters' horses, and so forth.
The shopmen and the servants missed him also, for to him all disputes were brought for settlement, nor, provided it had not come about through lack of honesty, were any pains too great for him to take to help them in a trouble.
I rushed among them, went flat, got rid of my vest after infinite wriggling, and stood a free man again, panting and scared, as the policeman and three of the shopmen came round the corner.
The place was already lit up and agreeably warm, and I decided to remain where I was, keeping a cautious eye on the two or three sets of shopmen and customers who were meandering through the place, until closing time came.
If one announce one's wisdom with bells, the shopmenin the market-place will out-jingle it with pennies!
Sleepy-looking shopmen made their appearance at the doors of all the shops.
And spluttering as he talked, he began describing the horrors he endured with his shopmen when he was taking fish to Moscow.
Each shop was little more than a recess, with a counter in front of it, before which the shopmen stood, praising in loud voices their wares, and inviting passers-by to stop and inspect them.
The only reason for having shopmen instead of automatic machines is that one requires help in buying things.
His voice rose in shrill entreaty, mixed with the cries of the shopmen and the noise of the streets.
The shopmen stood about, whispering to one another or changing the position of a pair of boots as they waited for the customers.
And in the butchers' shops there are grouse and woodcocks and fish and hares, but the shopmen don't say where they shoot them.
The shopmen at the butcher's, whom he had questioned the day before, told him that letters were put in post-boxes, and from the boxes were carried about all over the earth in mailcarts with drunken drivers and ringing bells.
Where pavements do exist they are used for idle shopmen to obstruct with their chairs or pushing shopmen to bar with their merchandise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shopmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
